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want us to find common ground. they want us to try to figure out how to work together. that was a message that i carried throughout the primary and into the general and it won the day and i found that with members of the other party as well. >> representative brooks says her children were instrumental in her campaign. >> it was very exciting to have a lot of 18-year-old seniors in high school involved in the campaign and a lot of young college kids involved. and so we've got to keep them involved because the problems that the country is facing are theirs to inherit. and so i'm going to work very hard to encourage and keep a lot of young people involved. >> brooks wants them to know she understands the challenges they face. she's seen first hand through her children, their friends and her work just how tough the job market is tay. >> if we don't turn this economy around and get jobs growing again, we're going to have a generation of young people coming out of school that aren't going to be put on that career path th
want us to find common ground. they want us to try to figure out how to work together. that was a message that i carried throughout the primary and into the general and it won the day and i found that with members of the other party as well. >> representative brooks says her children were instrumental in her campaign. >> it was very exciting to have a lot of 18-year-old seniors in high school involved in the campaign and a lot of young college kids involved. and so we've got to keep...
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i didn't use computers, i didn't use my time wisely. i did nora things. >> rporter: rachel bennett says through self-motivation and the support of one goal hallmon turned everything around. >> last quarter he had a 4.1 g.p.a.. with the weight of his a.p. it will class so he was doing that as a young father. he takes care of his two-year-old, sees her everyday, takes her to her doctor appointments. >> my one goal teacher always encouraged me like if you don't want to do nothing for yourself, do something for your baby, make a life for her. you want your child to have a better life than you already have so she's part of my motivation. >> reporter: anthony is in the final running far full ride slar to cornell university. it's the kind of ambition one goal hopes to instill in all of its students. >> if i don't leave and stay here it's not going to do nothing for my family so i'd rather go get an education and start on my career and bring them back towards them so i can raise a family take care of my daughter, take care of my mother also. i'
i didn't use computers, i didn't use my time wisely. i did nora things. >> rporter: rachel bennett says through self-motivation and the support of one goal hallmon turned everything around. >> last quarter he had a 4.1 g.p.a.. with the weight of his a.p. it will class so he was doing that as a young father. he takes care of his two-year-old, sees her everyday, takes her to her doctor appointments. >> my one goal teacher always encouraged me like if you don't want to do nothing...
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and this technology is the technology that took us to the moon, got us to the moon, you know, gets a space station orbiting. but it's not the technology that's going to real get us to mars. it is too slow. >> hinojosa: but if people have known this for so long, that it's too slow, how come we have continued to hear that nasa is working on trying to get to mars when you're basically saying, "yeah, they have been, but everybody knows that it's going to take too long," and therefore cost a lot more money, and probably not be green, if there is such a thing? >> well, you know, nasa, just like a very large organization, is very hard to turn. >> hinojosa: it's a bureaucracy. >> as they say, it's a ship, you know, which is moving and has a tremendous amount of inertia, and it's very difficult to make a course... significant course correction. now, president obama has outlined new guidelines for nasa, having to do with what they call game changing technologies. you know, focus on the technology, not so much on the mission right now, but on the technology, that enables the mission. >> hinojos
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to the give us a vote. >> woodruff: thank you both, mark sheedle and david brooks for being with us on this special state of the union night. with that we end our coverage of the president's state of the union address. we will be back at our regular time tomorrow for the newshour. don't forget you can still join our google-plus hangout hosted by news political editor christina bellantoni on the web. you can watch all of tonight's speeches on our you-tube site. i'm judy wood rough. on behalf of all of us at the newshour, thank you for joining us and good night. ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thk you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at w
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that's what's at stake here for us. it's really not a question about whher people like presiden obama or whether he doesn't, whether they don't. and i frankly think that president obama has done great disservice to what his ideals were and why we elected him in the first place in 2008, which was around the questions of transparency and human rights. and that's the piece that we actually need to keep our eye in the next four years. >> you mentioned senator ron wyden a moment ago. he is on the senate select committee. he's allowed to know the legal rational that's being offered for targeted killing, as well as all the countries where the killing is where it's happening. but even he can't get answers. and he's promised to bring these issues up at john brennan's confirmation hearings for cia director coming pretty soon. what questions would you put to john brennan when he goes before the congress to testify on behalf of his nomination for director of the cia? >> i'm not going to quibble with them on the fact that they are r
that's what's at stake here for us. it's really not a question about whher people like presiden obama or whether he doesn't, whether they don't. and i frankly think that president obama has done great disservice to what his ideals were and why we elected him in the first place in 2008, which was around the questions of transparency and human rights. and that's the piece that we actually need to keep our eye in the next four years. >> you mentioned senator ron wyden a moment ago. he is on...
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it's really nasty weather ahead of us. the pacific side will be remaining devoid from precipitation and the temperatures are shaping up like this. tokyo at 9. a little bit warmer than yesterday but biting cold out there at minus 11. here over towards the north american continent finally atlantic canada you'll see things taper off. heavier snow is targeting the heart of america. you can clearly see the defined comma. it's a weather pattern that dumped heavy snow amounts and caused the closing of school, cancellation of air flights, numerous power downs and traffic disturbances. take a look at these photos from kansas. the heavy snow has caused traffic disruption across kansas and the central plains. a state of emergency was declared on thursday. wichita had some 25 centimeters of snow in several hours which is the heaviest in 26 years. a lot of travel disturbances and accidents are occurring around the central plains. let's take aim to e great lakes region. additional snowfall could be as much as 30 centimeters and icy road
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whether you give, i giving or anyone else gives, it costs us money. it's a choice, and it's a choice we dotenet from. i don't look at it when i choose to give each year as a deduction. i sit down with my wife and decide how much money we can afford to invest in community action. and we think how much more can the charity get with the tax deduction added in. it's about extending the value what i am already giving away. >> tom: a three to one return on investment is the statistic you got, right? >> that's a statistic that comes out of giving u.s.a. i think that's a pretty good rate of rurn. and ifny stock i invested in showed that, i would be a pretty happy guy. >> tom: good point. we have to leave it there. add waw who heads up the associate of fund-raising professionals. >> thanks. >> tom: monday, with the markets closed for presidents' day, we dive deeper into giving social investing and corporate citizenship. it's conscious capital, an "n.b.r." special edition.. you can read more about charitable giving and corporate responsibility on n.b.r.-u. just
whether you give, i giving or anyone else gives, it costs us money. it's a choice, and it's a choice we dotenet from. i don't look at it when i choose to give each year as a deduction. i sit down with my wife and decide how much money we can afford to invest in community action. and we think how much more can the charity get with the tax deduction added in. it's about extending the value what i am already giving away. >> tom: a three to one return on investment is the statistic you got,...
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they use all-natural products and fair-trade cocoa. that's cocoa that comes from farmers who use fair labor practices, and sustainable pricing. it's been a busy year, the two went from concept to prototype in four months and hit store shelves in september, the products are available in whole foods and other grocery chains along the east coast. >> i certainly think that with a line of baking mixes i think that a woman-owned business sort of makes sense to the consumer. >> reporter: women owned businesses are expected to lead the u.s. economic rebound, according to "women lead" author tracey wilen gaugenti. she says crowdfunding is leveling the playing field. >> crowdfunding is really a great opportunity for people to push there idea out there and work with others to get some funds in so it is increasingly very popular. >> reporter: mccoy and lovett used therowdfuing bsite kickstarter to raise their first $20,000 for their first production run. one trend that's helped cisse, more people looking to cut costs and eat at home, it seemed lik
they use all-natural products and fair-trade cocoa. that's cocoa that comes from farmers who use fair labor practices, and sustainable pricing. it's been a busy year, the two went from concept to prototype in four months and hit store shelves in september, the products are available in whole foods and other grocery chains along the east coast. >> i certainly think that with a line of baking mixes i think that a woman-owned business sort of makes sense to the consumer. >> reporter:...
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banks are the catalyst to get us out of this morass that we're in. you can talk so long about the past, but at some point, you've got to look at the present and the future. and i thought that's what he was saying. >> narrator: the president had decided. he would wait on reforming wall street, and adopt the cautious apoach. >> i think theresident sees himself as a pragmatist: "let's get through this. let's be pragmatic. let's not shoot for the moon and miss. let's accomplish as much as we can, but let's do it with the certainty that we know we can produce by taking this a little more cautiously." >> narrator: and the president required no firm commitments from the bankers. >> i think it's clear it was an opportunity lost. he had a room full of very frightened ceos. he was in a position then to make demands, and didn't. >>e didn't wt toistu the banks. he wanted them on their side so that things were as calm as possible. there would be basically business as usual. >> today the obama administration did indeed extend them an olive branch. >> it looks like
banks are the catalyst to get us out of this morass that we're in. you can talk so long about the past, but at some point, you've got to look at the present and the future. and i thought that's what he was saying. >> narrator: the president had decided. he would wait on reforming wall street, and adopt the cautious apoach. >> i think theresident sees himself as a pragmatist: "let's get through this. let's be pragmatic. let's not shoot for the moon and miss. let's accomplish as...
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they kept broadcasting using the public radio system. still tsunami as high as 7.6 meters washed away 15 people. many of the victims returned home believing they faced n further danger but a third bigger wave hit two and a half hours after the quake. it swept them away. officials want to encourage residents to stay away from the coast until it is safe. now along with a public radio system they will get their message out using digital displays and loud speakers that carry sound twice to three times farther than conventional ones. they will also send the warning directly to schools on the coast. people who took part in the drill heard the alerts loud and clear and fled to higher ground. about 400 participants managed to evacuate within 13 minutes. >> i could hear the alarm well. information for both our eyes and ears. i hope the visual and audio warnings will be effective when a tsunami occurs. >> officials are determined to keep reminding citizens about the dangers of second and third tsunami, which can be more powerful than the first wav
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and there's stillo real solid ra approachment between us and then. so it is very hard to see that her soothing, her repairing of applianc appliance-- alliances necessarily resulted in concrete policy achievements. >> suarez: susan, wasn't it a pretty complicated mess, not only where places as trudy knows, like pakistan, but even with some of america's closest allies. >> well, that's exactly right. i mean these are times where, you know, you play the hand you are dealt as secretary of state not only because the white house decides the big picture policy. but the world over the last four years has been a complicated place who would have expected that actually europe our closee-- closest allies would have been in a period of enormous internal turmoil greater than anything they have seen since the end of world war 2. so clinton was left to manage those relationships. i think i would say that she was often a soother, but often as not she was also someone who would speak out in a tough manner. look at her championship with the russians. even as president o
and there's stillo real solid ra approachment between us and then. so it is very hard to see that her soothing, her repairing of applianc appliance-- alliances necessarily resulted in concrete policy achievements. >> suarez: susan, wasn't it a pretty complicated mess, not only where places as trudy knows, like pakistan, but even with some of america's closest allies. >> well, that's exactly right. i mean these are times where, you know, you play the hand you are dealt as secretary...
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a lochts us were expecting the b.s.a. to lift of ban but it makes sense to take this to their national council and i will discuss it a little further. >> brown: richard land, what's your reaction to today's move? >> well, i-- i'm very much pleased that they-- that they postponed this and a going to l the gass-rots cunc fom all across the nation decide this. i have no doubt which way they will decide. they are responding to an enormous grass-roots uprising that has taken place since thi announced this proposed policy change. >> brown: and staying with you, the argument now for keeping the ban. what is the argument? >> the argument is simply that the boy scouts have the right to have their core principles and to decide their membership policies and as recently as six months ago aft a two a a ha yea study by the boy scouts themselves they said that the current policy was supported by an overwhelming majority of the parents of the youth that they serve. and this is-- this attempt at compromise that has been proposed pleases n
a lochts us were expecting the b.s.a. to lift of ban but it makes sense to take this to their national council and i will discuss it a little further. >> brown: richard land, what's your reaction to today's move? >> well, i-- i'm very much pleased that they-- that they postponed this and a going to l the gass-rots cunc fom all across the nation decide this. i have no doubt which way they will decide. they are responding to an enormous grass-roots uprising that has taken place since...
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. >> those other people who do the jobs that none of us want to do. i think the odds are that he will not get it and he will not fight for it that hard. the last person who fought for a minimum-wage increase was ted kennedy and he actually got it. >> who will be the time kennedy in the senate is an interesting question, too. >> if you cannot pay someone $9 an hour, you probably should not be a business. >> i agree with him -- >> you talk about the economy as if it is a moral and estimate. even if i agree with you, it does not change the fact that it will hurt young people and immigrants, a lot of whom are low-skilled, you are guaranteeing them the low end of the scale and will hurt the chances of young, less skilled people getting jobs. it is an economic fact. it may not be just, but it is true. >> is what i am asking -- where is the evidence of that having happened -- >> why don't you make it $15? >> but you are making the argument -- >> if you are saying it has no effect on employment -- >> obviously it has an effect! the question is, are you going
. >> those other people who do the jobs that none of us want to do. i think the odds are that he will not get it and he will not fight for it that hard. the last person who fought for a minimum-wage increase was ted kennedy and he actually got it. >> who will be the time kennedy in the senate is an interesting question, too. >> if you cannot pay someone $9 an hour, you probably should not be a business. >> i agree with him -- >> you talk about the economy as if it...
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as dune pointed out he used some of the same infrastructure used for hacking. he registered a website for basically a mobile phone shop. he was making a little money on the side, and we needed him to confirm that that mobile phone shop was in fact his and that he has a relatively common last name and we needed to make sure he was the same guy who worked at the pla's cyber security institute which basically trains military operations in cyber wars. so the phone call was quite simple. we asked a couple of initial questions, are you the man who works at this university. he says yes. i'm not teaching classes today, i'm outside the city. do you own this mobile phone shop. he says yes. i no longer visit. that was some time ago. and then we begin to ask questions about the hacking activity and the other thing he does. and he quickly set the tone changes immediately he says that's not convenient to talk about right now. we asked him whether he works for the government. he says no i can't answer any more questions and he hung up the phone but he confirmed that the mobil
as dune pointed out he used some of the same infrastructure used for hacking. he registered a website for basically a mobile phone shop. he was making a little money on the side, and we needed him to confirm that that mobile phone shop was in fact his and that he has a relatively common last name and we needed to make sure he was the same guy who worked at the pla's cyber security institute which basically trains military operations in cyber wars. so the phone call was quite simple. we asked a...
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trust us and we're going to use it so that you fulfill your campaign promises." >> narrator: majority leader cantor had laid out an approach that would put the new congress in direct conflict with the white house. >> it was clear the republicans were going to try to extract some price. and i think the question was, how significant would that price be? and how unyielding would the republicans be in order to get it? >> narrator: cantor thought he could count on the new members because he had worked hard to get them elected. >> america is at a crossroads, and washington remains out of touch. there is a better way, and a new team is ready to bring america back. eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, paul ryan, joined by common- sense conservatives... >> narrator: cantor had teamed up with his closest allies to form their own political action committee. >> together they are the young guns. >> this is the young guns. they have a book. they have a website. they're the new face of the republican party, and as mccarthy told me, paul is the brains, mccarthy is the strategist, cantor is the leader. >> nar
trust us and we're going to use it so that you fulfill your campaign promises." >> narrator: majority leader cantor had laid out an approach that would put the new congress in direct conflict with the white house. >> it was clear the republicans were going to try to extract some price. and i think the question was, how significant would that price be? and how unyielding would the republicans be in order to get it? >> narrator: cantor thought he could count on the new...
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do you draw a line between the use of drones at all and the use of drones in order to get to american citizens? >> look, i think the concern is less abouting a t actual kind of weapons used in the fact that lethal force is authorized in the first place and i would disagree with professor waxman on a couple of very key points. one is tat he's acepting the conclusion that there is a war without geographic limitations. we are admittedly in an armed conflict in a war in afghanistan but at the time of the killings, for example, that we are contesting in a lawsuit with center for constitutional rights of three american citizens in 2011, there was no armed conflict in yemen where the killings took place at the time that the killings happened. so what's truly troubling here is how broad the assertion of thority is and how hard the administration is fighting to prevent the courts from looking at the legality of the authority that it claims. >> ifill: we should mention that even though anwar al-awlaki's name is not mentioned in this memo, mr. waxman, there is an assumption that this is a kind o
do you draw a line between the use of drones at all and the use of drones in order to get to american citizens? >> look, i think the concern is less abouting a t actual kind of weapons used in the fact that lethal force is authorized in the first place and i would disagree with professor waxman on a couple of very key points. one is tat he's acepting the conclusion that there is a war without geographic limitations. we are admittedly in an armed conflict in a war in afghanistan but at the...
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you have to use the statutes that you have available and you have to use the evidence you've got but there's a strong suit the federal government is engaging. >> brown: this is going to be a tough one to prove? >> no, i don't think it's tough to prove. if you read the complaints there is an enormous amount of internal information that shows that they knew they weren't being independently objective. they knew they were ratings junk but saying it was high quality. >> brown: lisa madigan, illinois's attorney general, thank you so much. now a response by standard & poor's. played in the abrams, lisa madigan suggests this is a pretty clear-cut case of fraud. what's the essence of the defense? >> well, the defense is first of all there was no fraud. there was no intent on the part of standard & poor's to s anying, to rate anything other than what they thought the rating was it's perfectly true that they were internal debates, that there are some e-mails going back and forth by angry people, sometimes accusatory of each other but the underlying reality here is that the ratings at issue in t
you have to use the statutes that you have available and you have to use the evidence you've got but there's a strong suit the federal government is engaging. >> brown: this is going to be a tough one to prove? >> no, i don't think it's tough to prove. if you read the complaints there is an enormous amount of internal information that shows that they knew they weren't being independently objective. they knew they were ratings junk but saying it was high quality. >> brown: lisa...
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all of us are elected officials. all of us are concerned about our politics both in our own parties as well as the other parties. but at some point we have to do some governing. and certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis. >> suarez: to reinforce the point, the administration on sunday spelled out how each state will be affected from job losses for teachers to cuts in defense spending. after today's meeting, governors largely divided down party lines in voicing their frustration. democrats, including governor daniel maloy of connecticut tended to blame congress. >> they need to get out of that box that sits under the dome and understand that this has real implications in people's lives and they should stop playing around with it and get the job done. by the way, they should compromise to get the job done. suarez: while governor bobby jindal of louisiana and his fellow republicans pointed to the president. >> enough is enough. now is the time to cut spending. it can
all of us are elected officials. all of us are concerned about our politics both in our own parties as well as the other parties. but at some point we have to do some governing. and certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis. >> suarez: to reinforce the point, the administration on sunday spelled out how each state will be affected from job losses for teachers to cuts in defense spending. after today's meeting, governors largely divided...
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she joins us now. melissa, thanks for joining us. tell us a bit more about chris kile's own story. he grew up there in texas, right? >> that's right. he he grew up in texas. he mentioned in an interview that he dreamed of being a cow boy or becoming a person in the military. he ended up joining the navy seal and becoming a very successful sniper. had was deeply christiane in his faith. he was well liked by his peers. >> brown: he served with great distinction. he came back and wrote this best selling memoir of his time in iraq. he had his own problems adjusting to life back at home. >> yes, he did. he mentioned that when he got back, it was a jarring transition to return to civilian life. he couldn't connect as much with people who hadn't experienced and seen what he had seen during his four deployments in iraq which led him to empathize with fellow veterans and want to help them. >> bro: tell us about that ork. since 20 i gather he's been quite active in trying to work with other vets. >> that's right. he actually started a nonprofit that provided at-home exercise equipment to hel
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what can you tell us about the markets? >> investors are worried that the european debt crisis could become front page news once again with political instability. following that election tokyo traders are buying the yen. traders try to avert risks by betting on the yen as a safe haven currency. the dollar reached a one month high in new york. that's trading around the 92 yen market. 92.54 to 56 yen. let's take a look at how this is affecting the stock markets. tokyo stocks are trading sharply lower after a strong rally on monday. the drop follows a slump in u.s. markets. the yen strength has been a drag on a wide range of issues. they are concerned about whether italy can consider its final reforms. the nikkei average is down 1.75%. the dollar was at a one month low and not a one month high. let's take a look at other markets in the asia pacific. south korea's kospi down a thirthird of a percent. let's see what's going in australia. it's down to 5,018. we'll see where other markets take us as they open in next hour. japan's
what can you tell us about the markets? >> investors are worried that the european debt crisis could become front page news once again with political instability. following that election tokyo traders are buying the yen. traders try to avert risks by betting on the yen as a safe haven currency. the dollar reached a one month high in new york. that's trading around the 92 yen market. 92.54 to 56 yen. let's take a look at how this is affecting the stock markets. tokyo stocks are trading...
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, what do you want to do with us? ( applause ) >> warner: committee chairman leahy has pledged to send a bill to the full senate. and in the coming weeks, a house proposal is expected to be unveiled as well. so, could immigration reform be the rare big-ticket item that passes congress wh bipartisan support? we explore the queson with norman ornstein, a longtime congress watcher and a scholar at the american enterprise institute. and manu raju, a senior reporter with politico who has been closely covering the issue. manu, let me begin with you. tkphopbg the last couple of years has been so partisan and dysfunctional is there real reason to think immigration reform this time could be different? >> i think there is. the issues that have divided this congress in the lst two yearhaveeen mainl over the fiscal matters. there's a sharp divide between republicans and democrats over the issues of taxes and spending. on immigration, it really cuts across party lines. there are a lot of senators from border states, influential on
, what do you want to do with us? ( applause ) >> warner: committee chairman leahy has pledged to send a bill to the full senate. and in the coming weeks, a house proposal is expected to be unveiled as well. so, could immigration reform be the rare big-ticket item that passes congress wh bipartisan support? we explore the queson with norman ornstein, a longtime congress watcher and a scholar at the american enterprise institute. and manu raju, a senior reporter with politico who has been...
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thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: in the nine weeks since the schoolhouse shootings in newtown, connecticut, police around the country report hundreds more have been victims of gun violence. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. tonight begins a weeklong focus on guns here on pbs, "after newtown." on the newshour this evening, we look at political and other developments since the december tragedy and zero in on the gun debate in colorado. >> in the divisive atmosphere of the gun debate, both sides, at the federal and state level, say they know the coming months won't be easy. but they will be critical. >> ifill: then, we take up the arguments for and against the proposed construction of the keystone pipeline, as environmental activists mounted a protest this weekend. >> woodurff: ray suarez updates the hugo chavez story, after the president's surprise return to venezuela following more than two months of cancer treatment in cuba.
thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: in the nine weeks since the schoolhouse shootings in newtown, connecticut, police around the country report hundreds more have been victims of gun violence. good evening. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. tonight begins a weeklong focus on guns here on pbs, "after newtown." on the newshour this evening, we look at political and other developments since the december tragedy...
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none of us will get 100% of what we want. but the alternative will cost us jobs. hurt our economy. visit hardship on millions of hard-working americans. let's set party interests aside and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future. and let's do it without the bringsmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufacturing cries... from one manufactured crisis to the next. we can't do it. ( applause ) let's agree, let's agree right here right now to keep the people's government open and pay our bills on time and always uphold the full faith and credit of the united states of america. ( applause ) the american people have worked too hard for too long rebuilding from one crisis to see their elected officials cause another. (smattering of applause) now most of us agree that a plan to reduce the deficit must be part of our agenda. let's be clear. deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan. (sl
none of us will get 100% of what we want. but the alternative will cost us jobs. hurt our economy. visit hardship on millions of hard-working americans. let's set party interests aside and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future. and let's do it without the bringsmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. the greatest nation on earth, the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from...
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he joins us now. welcome >> thank you for having me brown: we've known this is a problem for a long time but how pervasive is it? >> it's extremely extensive. according to the department of de's own estimates more than 19,000 men and women are sexually assaulted each year in the u.s. military. if you multiply that times the decades this has been going on there's over 500,000 perhaps even closeo a million men and women have been sexually asauled over the last three generations >> brown: the problem that you showed and we really saw it in that excerpt is not only does it happens but the ugliness afterwards, right? the women themselves are often persecuted >> exactly. only 86% of men and women who are sexually assaulted in the military don't report. it's exactly for those reasons. they experience reprisals that are in many ways a second betrayal that is worse than the actual rape itself. >> brown: sometimes they have to report it to the perpetrator >> right. brown: their commanding officer >> right brown
he joins us now. welcome >> thank you for having me brown: we've known this is a problem for a long time but how pervasive is it? >> it's extremely extensive. according to the department of de's own estimates more than 19,000 men and women are sexually assaulted each year in the u.s. military. if you multiply that times the decades this has been going on there's over 500,000 perhaps even closeo a million men and women have been sexually asauled over the last three generations...
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none of us do. if we can't get our hamburger within five minutes, if we can't get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. they start calling their member of congress. >> suarez: more now on these latest warnings, the republican response and the timing of these possible cuts. lisa rein is following this for the "washington post" and she joins me now. lisa, in recent days senior members of the obama administration have laid out an exacting detail all the terrible consequences that the sequester goes through while republicans, in many cases, have said it might not be that bad. from your reporting, can you tell who's working closer to the truth? >> well, it is hard to tell you about this is really in part a political game because it really does look like these 85 billion dollars in spending cuts will begin to take effect next fridayment it does not look as if congress, either side in congress has a real interest in resolving this issue. and the obama administra
none of us do. if we can't get our hamburger within five minutes, if we can't get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. they start calling their member of congress. >> suarez: more now on these latest warnings, the republican response and the timing of these possible cuts. lisa rein is following this for the "washington post" and she joins me now. lisa, in recent days senior members of the obama administration have laid out an...
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people are going to get drone s and come back at us. but it is still necessary that we do these things because what else are we going to do? >> we have a secret army and the cia is going off on its own. you wrote a book about this -- >> it makes me extremely anxious because the history of a covert action is that it often backfires. i hate to be fruity about this, but if you are a superpower and try to keep peace and the world, you are going to be reprehensible things and it is almost guaranteed to come back and bite you, but you still have to do it. >> i remember you predicted right after 9/11, get ready, we will do unpalatable things. >> of course, it just goes with the territory. >> there was this moment in the hearings that i thought was indicative which was actually about waterboarding and torture, in which brennan said he knew about it and protested it but did not do anything to stop it because he was not in the chain of command at that point. i thought was a pretty reprehensible answer. but on the other hand, i know that bob gates
people are going to get drone s and come back at us. but it is still necessary that we do these things because what else are we going to do? >> we have a secret army and the cia is going off on its own. you wrote a book about this -- >> it makes me extremely anxious because the history of a covert action is that it often backfires. i hate to be fruity about this, but if you are a superpower and try to keep peace and the world, you are going to be reprehensible things and it is...
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it is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. it is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. it took brill seven months to research and write. he analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an drug companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment i'm pleased to have stef steven brill back at this table, welcome. >> thanks, charlie. >> rose: what got you here this longest piece. >> as you know i like t pick topics where i just feel that i'm curious about them. and for a long time i have just been curious about why health-care costs so much. you know, we've had years of debate about who should pay for health care. how should we do insurance, and who should pay the bills. but i've never seen anyone stop to say hey, wait a minute, how come if will cost you 20 or 25,000 dollars if god-- as you're walking ot of this building, you slip-and-fall and land on your elbow. whwill it cost a million dollars if are you diagnosed th cancer, how come, who's getting the money. >> rose: you, because of all your
it is called bitter pill, why medical bills are killing us. it is the longest piece by a single author ever published by time. it took brill seven months to research and write. he analyzes bills from hospitals, doctors an drug companies to paint an extraordinary picture of medical overspendingment i'm pleased to have stef steven brill back at this table, welcome. >> thanks, charlie. >> rose: what got you here this longest piece. >> as you know i like t pick topics where i just...
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thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama met with the nation's governors today, and painted a gloomy picture of federal spending cuts that are set to kick in friday. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we get an update on the potential impact the sequester will have if the white house and congress can't work out a compromise. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner looks into the troubles looming for the catholic church ahead of electing a new pope. >> suarez: a cuba without a castro in charge? we talk with senator patrick leahy, who just returned from the island after an unsuccessful attempt to secure the release of an imprisoned american. >> woodruff: fred de sam lazaro reports on india's push to account for hundreds of millions of its citizens by issuing government identity cards. >> we still have a large number of residents much india who don't have a birth certificate or any other form of offic
thanks for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama met with the nation's governors today, and painted a gloomy picture of federal spending cuts that are set to kick in friday. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we get an update on the potential impact the sequester will have if the white house and congress can't work out a compromise. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner...
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i use the term "digital divides," i put an 's' behind this. you know, there's a divide based not only on weal and educational attainment here, but in terms of age, in terms of place of residence and place of speed. for example, hispanics and blacks tend to have connectivity to the internet increasingly with mobile communications devices like cell phones. >> hinojosa: latinos are, in fact, in terms of social media, and in terms of activity, very engaged. >> right. well, um, cell phones tend to be cheaper than notebook computers or dktop computers, but they do have limitations. even though you can communicate with them extremely well, either through voice or texting, you can't produce a lot of creative kinds of activity like you would if you had a keyboard and were looking at a larger screen. you can't be a good computer artist using a cell phone and not having a big screen computer. so, you know, it has its pluses but it also has its minuses, it has these costs. >> hinojosa: well, paint a picture of what that looks like so people cakind of ha i
i use the term "digital divides," i put an 's' behind this. you know, there's a divide based not only on weal and educational attainment here, but in terms of age, in terms of place of residence and place of speed. for example, hispanics and blacks tend to have connectivity to the internet increasingly with mobile communications devices like cell phones. >> hinojosa: latinos are, in fact, in terms of social media, and in terms of activity, very engaged. >> right. well, um,...
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join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, the israeli gospel choir from tel aviv performing at congregation rodeph sholom in new york city. ♪ >> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lilly endowment, dedicated to the founders' interest in religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting.
join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, the israeli gospel choir from tel aviv performing at congregation rodeph sholom in new york city. ♪ >> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lilly endowment, dedicated to the founders' interest in religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the...
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tell us what you saw. >> i talked to the witnesses, the neighbors here. and people told me that there was a huge explosion. the sound was really too loud and they said that the was trembledn tir homes and they felt that their organs had shaken. so she immediately understood that something went terribly wrong at the u.s. embassy, their neighbor. and as i looked around i seen that, you know, also our journalists, the turkish correspondents here were kind of calm and quiet because the only injured is now at the hospital, is one of ours. a turkish correspondent, iplomat correondent. >> brown: now the turkish interior minister said the bomber was a member of a far left group. what is known about this group? and why they might attack a u.s. facility? >> well, this group named revolutionary people's liberation party in turkish we call it-- was founded in 1978. and it's a secular terrorist organization, different from the islamist leaning terroristrganation. it embraces a marxist leninist ideology. it is anti-imperialist, anti-u.s. and anti-nato for that matter.
tell us what you saw. >> i talked to the witnesses, the neighbors here. and people told me that there was a huge explosion. the sound was really too loud and they said that the was trembledn tir homes and they felt that their organs had shaken. so she immediately understood that something went terribly wrong at the u.s. embassy, their neighbor. and as i looked around i seen that, you know, also our journalists, the turkish correspondents here were kind of calm and quiet because the only...
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the mger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word "austerity." we're basically saying that even though the widening gap between rich and poor built us up, many of the factors that plunged us into a crisis, instead of dealing with them and fixing that problem, we're actually allowing the crisis to make the inequality worse. the latest research from the leading two economists, saez from the university of california in berkeley, and piketty in france confirms that even over the last five years of the crisis, through 2012, the inequality of wealth and income has gotten worse, as though we are determined not to deal with it. all of those headli
the mger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word...
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mai shoji tells us why in world weather. >> hi there. still sometimes nice to look at, but traveling around it not so much fun. let me show you a video coming out from eastern china. heavy snow covered much of east china on monday and tuesday, causing serious traffic disruption. authorities are advising people to drive slowly and carefully on slippery roads. nanjing saw 18 centimeters of snow on tuesday. the largest one-day snowfall in february for this area. shanghai's traffic was also affected by the snow. now, if we pull back, the satellite picture shows you that the skies are clearing up, so the snow is going to stop across much of the eastern continental asia due to these kind of high pressure systems cresting overhead. shanghai will see the temperature on the upswing too. not so much here in the korean peninsula. seoul this morning saw temperatures dipping down to minus 8.7 degrees. here across much of japan as well, cold is dominating the country. much of the nation saw temperatures dipping down to the freezing point or below acro
mai shoji tells us why in world weather. >> hi there. still sometimes nice to look at, but traveling around it not so much fun. let me show you a video coming out from eastern china. heavy snow covered much of east china on monday and tuesday, causing serious traffic disruption. authorities are advising people to drive slowly and carefully on slippery roads. nanjing saw 18 centimeters of snow on tuesday. the largest one-day snowfall in february for this area. shanghai's traffic was also...
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ai uchida joins us now from the business desk. so ai, tell us, what's ben bernanke looking for? >> well, bernanke is looking specifically at the jobs market. he wants more americans to hold more jobs before he exits all monetary policy. and he still feels the unemployment rate is too high at the moment. so the head of the u.s. federal reserve has defended the central bank's monetary stimulus package. this has eased concerns fed officials would cut short their asset-buying program. chairman ben bernanke on tuesday presented his semi-annual report to the senate. he acknowledged bold monetary easing could cause inflationut stressedhe mit of the licy. >> we do not see potential cost to the increased risk taking in some financial markets as outweighing the benefits of promoting a strong economic recovery and more rapid job creation. >> bernanke also warned imminent spending cuts could put the brakes on recovery if they take effect on march 1st. he urged republicans and democrats to set aside their differences to find a solution. now, bernanke also said he understood japanese prime mi
ai uchida joins us now from the business desk. so ai, tell us, what's ben bernanke looking for? >> well, bernanke is looking specifically at the jobs market. he wants more americans to hold more jobs before he exits all monetary policy. and he still feels the unemployment rate is too high at the moment. so the head of the u.s. federal reserve has defended the central bank's monetary stimulus package. this has eased concerns fed officials would cut short their asset-buying program....
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the most six most used words. >> americans. americans. >> people must work. >> joe deaux. thestreet.com for n.b.r. >> susie: there's a lesson to learn from the struggles of smartphone maker blackberry. it's important to remember that sometimes you have to take a big risk in order to reap the rewards. sports analyst rick horrow explains in this week's "beyond the scoreboard." >> in the next few weeks, blackberry will begin selling its highly anticipated q-10 and z-10 smartphones with the hopes of regaining market share. and unlike other companies in the cell phone space-- like service providers at&t and verizon, and device maker samsung-- blackberry has never been an aggressive spender on sports advertising or sponsorship within the u.s. it's been on the edge with instead of directly in the game. the company's highest-profile north american deal is as an official partner of the n.h.l. however, as executives try salvaging a stock down 75% over two years, blackberry finally may be suiting up. the company spent nearly $4 million to
the most six most used words. >> americans. americans. >> people must work. >> joe deaux. thestreet.com for n.b.r. >> susie: there's a lesson to learn from the struggles of smartphone maker blackberry. it's important to remember that sometimes you have to take a big risk in order to reap the rewards. sports analyst rick horrow explains in this week's "beyond the scoreboard." >> in the next few weeks, blackberry will begin selling its highly anticipated...
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and they used it. they said one of the executives fv executives in german said yeah, not him, qu use him for quirky minor parts. and that hurt. >> yeah. >> because i was really not just years and years and years, but my whole-- my whole everything i put in what i do. so i tried to, tried to get my own stuff together. started writing. started directing, povies fall ago part for the same reason y would he direct. can make a living as an actor. literally i heard that. and i lost faith. i didn't lose my pig headness but i lost faith. and all of a sudden, you know, quentin plucks me out of that, and puts me in exactly the context that i always wanted to be in. and all of a sudden i had the feeling that yeah, what i am after and what i have to offer is actually welcome. >> and there has been a continuation of that. >> yeah, it's really-- i say that every other day. i feel like having to go down on my knees and thinking whofer it is. >> i'm overwell amed by the story, just the sheer, knowing what you had put
and they used it. they said one of the executives fv executives in german said yeah, not him, qu use him for quirky minor parts. and that hurt. >> yeah. >> because i was really not just years and years and years, but my whole-- my whole everything i put in what i do. so i tried to, tried to get my own stuff together. started writing. started directing, povies fall ago part for the same reason y would he direct. can make a living as an actor. literally i heard that. and i lost faith....
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well, the pope used to do that. when he had political arguments with regimes he would impose interdicts and say priests can't celebrate any of the sacraments so people had to die unslichb and all of that kind of thing. it's a weapon. >> rose: would you allow anybody who wanted to celebrate communion in the catholic church celebrate communion? >> sure. as long as they -- well, i think the really important text is in the gospel of luke. when jesus sends his deceer sies out o teir first mission alone and they came back and they said it went really well but we came across someone who is casting out devils in your name but he wasn't one of us and we told him to stop. he said, why did you do that? if he's doing in the my name, he's not against me. so if they're doing it in his name, come in. be part of the body of christ. >> i'm looking at the last number here. what the gospel's meant, what pauleant, whatesus meant whi'm a catholic, saint augustine's confession, papal sin, st. august city, the words that remade america. i
well, the pope used to do that. when he had political arguments with regimes he would impose interdicts and say priests can't celebrate any of the sacraments so people had to die unslichb and all of that kind of thing. it's a weapon. >> rose: would you allow anybody who wanted to celebrate communion in the catholic church celebrate communion? >> sure. as long as they -- well, i think the really important text is in the gospel of luke. when jesus sends his deceer sies out o teir...
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certainly from us. and we didn't do-- in the financial products business that aig had where they rented out their credit rating, that's what they z that is the most precious asset that we have. and candidly, i am just being honest with you, it never even occurred to me t do it i look back on that and i asked myself was it because i wasn't sufficiently sophisticated to see it as an alternative that i rejected. or was it because i think about my business in a certain way that it didn't even occur to me. it never occurred to me to do it and when i saw what they had done it was eye-popping. eye-popping. >> rose: eye-popping. >> yeah. >> rose: because you it never imagined it. >> couldn't imagine that you would-- i mean aig-- . >> rose: why do you think they did it? >> you know, i think that you asked about leadership before. and i get asked a lot about financial crisis and why. i-- my experience, anyway, has been that most people in organizations try their best to do what the leadership tells them to do. th
certainly from us. and we didn't do-- in the financial products business that aig had where they rented out their credit rating, that's what they z that is the most precious asset that we have. and candidly, i am just being honest with you, it never even occurred to me t do it i look back on that and i asked myself was it because i wasn't sufficiently sophisticated to see it as an alternative that i rejected. or was it because i think about my business in a certain way that it didn't even occur...
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>> us, all of us. what's happened is that these enormous telecommunications companies, comcast and time warner on the wired side, verizon and at&t on the wireless side, have divided up markets, put themselves in the position where they're subject to no competition and no oversight from any regulatory authority. and they're charging us a lot for internet access and giving us second class access. this is a lot like the elecifation story from the beginng othe 20th ctury. initially electricity was viewed as a luxury. so when f.d.r. came in, 90% of farms didn't have electricity in america at the same time that kids in new york city were playing with electric toys. and f.d.r. understood how important it was for people all over america to have the dignity and self-respect and sort of cultural and social and economic connection of an electrical outlet in thr home. so he made sure to take on the special interests that were controlling electricity then who had divided up markets and consolidated just the way int
>> us, all of us. what's happened is that these enormous telecommunications companies, comcast and time warner on the wired side, verizon and at&t on the wireless side, have divided up markets, put themselves in the position where they're subject to no competition and no oversight from any regulatory authority. and they're charging us a lot for internet access and giving us second class access. this is a lot like the elecifation story from the beginng othe 20th ctury. initially...
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but this is not efficient use. this is economically inefficient. and destructive use. it head in just the opposite direction i think we want to do. >> woodruff: we have nine days to go, we'll see what happens. deputy secretary of defense ashton carter, thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": sonia sotomayor's beloved country; the minds of rampage killers; mapping the brain and a stone age ceremonial site. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: former congressman jesse jackson junior pleaded guilty today to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. the illinois democrat appeared in a federal district court in washington. he had resigned from congress last november, after being treated for bi-polar disorder. jackson will be sentenced in late june. his wife sandra also pleaded guilty today, to committing tax fraud. the obama administration is launching a new strategy to fight cyber theft. the plan announced today includes a diplomatic effort to discourage intellectual property theft abro
but this is not efficient use. this is economically inefficient. and destructive use. it head in just the opposite direction i think we want to do. >> woodruff: we have nine days to go, we'll see what happens. deputy secretary of defense ashton carter, thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": sonia sotomayor's beloved country; the minds of rampage killers; mapping the brain and a stone age ceremonial site. but first, with the other news of...
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decode for us what happened today. i mean, the republicans told harry reid they had the votes to block the nomination-- block consideration of the nomination, yet he forced it to a vote in the amp anyway. why? >> he did. well, there are different imperatives floating around all cornerings of this vote, as there often are in the senate. opposition to senator hagel has mounted before he was even named and almost all of that opposition except for token opposition came from within his own party. building up today-to-today it was a question of would republicans require 60 votes to mo forrd wththis nomination? not unprecedented for a cabinet nominee but harry reid was right it is unprecedented for a secretary of defense, for any national security nominee at the top level for that matter. as it got closer to the vote, then, the question became would democrats be able to peel five republicans to get to 60 and if not are republicans going to stick by their guns and make this a real filibuster? meaning we're going to withhold 60
decode for us what happened today. i mean, the republicans told harry reid they had the votes to block the nomination-- block consideration of the nomination, yet he forced it to a vote in the amp anyway. why? >> he did. well, there are different imperatives floating around all cornerings of this vote, as there often are in the senate. opposition to senator hagel has mounted before he was even named and almost all of that opposition except for token opposition came from within his own...